His goal, working with the National Trust and Natural Resource Wales, is to restore some of that biodiversity by re-introducing the extinct rosy saxifrage - a plant he calls a mountain jewel - to ...

Barry Saxifrage is Canada’s National Observer’s resident chart geek and climate analyst. In his visual carbon columns, Saxifrage deconstructs the data behind global warming and Canada’s climate ...

But what makes one plant more likely to survive than another? We’ve uncovered some strange and surprising facts about some of our hardiest plants. Scientists in Germany think they’ve ...

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They are also endlessly fascinating, as any list detailing facts about dogs will prove. And that fascination causes many people, myself included, to devote their lives to a totally different ...

These weird facts might have you changing the way you eat. Those fresh apples aren’t all that fresh, per say. They’re usually picked between August and November, covered in wax, hot-air dried ...

The sap of agave plants, which is toxic to people if it's not cooked, is harvested from the heart of the plant. It's then extracted, filtered, and heated to create the product sold in stores.

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Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...

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